Technology 'fingerprints'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police have launched a new technology that uses black-eye scanners to identify suspects, so they can not be fooled.

Authorities have decided to start shooting the suspects' eyes after two suspected serious crimes have escaped jail time in court by using the identity of the suspects. miscarriage other.

So, currently, some suspects Manhattan in custody, in addition to capturing images of regulations and fingerprints, will have to look closely into a device that looks like "a machine that measured the eye of doctors ophthalmologist "to save the eye contact.


Prior to facing the judge, the suspects will look at a handheld scanner for second-chance identification using high-resolution photographs to compare the coincidence of the specimens. They show in their eye color details as compared to previously saved eyeballs.

Police officials say the $ 500,000 plan - intended to be extended to other parts of New York City by the end of the year - is a way to prevent potentially dangerous suspects. beat the legal system.

Individual privacy advocacy organizations, however, argue that Sci-Fi-Style scanners can deprive the privacy of New Yorkers .

Executive Director of the New York Association for Civil Liberties, Donna Lieberman, said the police had failed to prove that these eyeglasses were necessary, beneficial, or reliable in identifying those in love. suspicion

" Every time the police start gathering personal information and start putting information into the database, we are all worried ," Lieberman told the press.